I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “racism” from The Cultural Gutter
The Pitiful Death of Monsieur Mallah
There's a sickness in my stomach I've been carrying a while, an unpleasant acid feeling that bothers me when I've been reading or reading about comics lately. And I guess it's time for me to cough it up and see what the hell is burning a hole inside.
Continue reading...
What's the Matter with Comics?
Comics at the Big Two are in rough shape. Greg Burgas and Chris Sims see similar problems (nostalgia, Kurt Busiek) creating more problems (blandness, resistance to change, retcons, killing of heroes of color to replace them with white heroes of the Silver Age...). We noted Chris' article before, but it's worth reading with Greg's.
Happy Birthday, Pam Grier!
It's Pam Grier's birthday. Celebrate with this interview by NPR.
"Tresspassing on Sacred Ground"
As part of TCM's Race & Hollyood: Native American Images on Film" festival, Movie Morlocks has posted part 1 of an essay on Native Americans in horror movies from The Werewolf a 1913 Canadian silent to J.T. Petty's The Burrowers and Twilight: New Moon: "The inclusion of Native Americans into
actual horror movies boils down to a scattering of reliable formulas: Whites Trespassing on Sacred Grounds, Vengeful Redskins, Ecology and Racism." (via GCDB)
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"A Cosmic-Scale Meta-Textual Ghetto"
Chris Sims writes a thought-provoking article about how DC's universe reboots are fueled by fan nostalgia that shoves characters of color aside in favor of white "legacy" characters and unintentionally builds "a cosmic-scale meta-textual ghetto." Read it.(And this little addition to it).
Machete Trailer, Cinco de Mayo Edition
Happy Cinco de Mayo from Danny Trejo, Robert Rodriguez and Machete with this special edition trailer for Machete. Includes Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson and Steven Segal, plus special greetings for the state government of Arizona!
Odienator Sizes Up Uncle Remus
Odienator answers two pressing questions in his piece about Song of the South: "1. Should Disney release this movie on DVD in America? Absolutely. 2.
Is Song of the South as racist as its rep indicates? Well…keep reading.
(You didn't think I'd just give you my goodies without dinner and
foreplay, did you?)"
The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages
Dart Adams Presents: Black Like Me: The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part One (1900-1968)and Part Two (1969-2008). (Click it! It's amazing).
The Biography of Ebony White
"People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."--Malcolm
X / Malik El-Shabazz, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told To
Alex Haley)
Continue reading...
"You Asked For It--Cried For It--Demanded It!"
"You asked for it--Cried for it--Demanded it!" Yes, dear reader, Sequential Crush, a blog dedicated to romance comics from the 1960s and 1970s. Check out "Black + White = Heartbreak," a story about interracial romance in the early 1970s and scans of the first three issues of Night Nurse. (via The Groovy Age of Horror)
Talking More Twilight
Gabe Lezra hits a nerve when he writes about the white man's burden in Twilight and New Moon and wonders why there's no Team Bella and the comments at The Wesleyan Argus are all kerfuffled.
Jenkins' List
Henry Jenkins writes up a handy list of some comics he's enjoyed recently, divvied into stories of everyday life, superheroes, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and some unclassifiable items.
The Black Dragon's Revenge
Ron Van Clief. the Black Dragon, remembers Bruce Lee, Carter Wong, Jimi Hendrix, racism and underground fighting in the 1950s and working with Blaxploitation auteur, Berry Gordy:
"What made The Last Dragon so special is that it was shot in New York
City and it starred an African American. No drugs, no prostitution.
Just a clean Disney-like story. I consider it a martial arts fantasy.
They used my Chinese Goju virtues in the film. It was excellent that
over 30 of my students worked on the film."
John Wayne Can't Save You
This month we're mixing it up at the Gutter with each editor writing about something outside their usual domain. This week Carol Borden writes about movies. She can normally be found here.
Blood Red Earth has been on FEARnet for weeks now. A horror movie set in the Old West with a Native American cast? All in Lakota? It's hard to imagine much more awesome than that. I'd been anticipating and dreading it. Its predecessor, The Burrowers, is harrowing and I wasn't in a hurry to be a little shaky, a little pale again. So I circled round and round. (Spoilers down below)
Continue reading...
The Yellow Peril Seduces Unshaven, Middle Aged White Men
"She came from the Orient to seduce middle-aged white men who don't shave." Grady has a few things to say about the Zhang Ziyi and Dennis Quaid film, The Horsemen.
Response to Harassment in the Geek World
Comic Con Anti-Harassment Project and further discussion of the post we posted from Bully. Also, the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project, here and here. (thanks, Elizabeth!)
Yellow Peril
I've learned something reading Terry and the Pirates: There's no way around the yellow peril in the Golden Age. Good comics sometimes have racist renderings in them.
Continue reading...
Grant Morrison Sighted Off The Coast of Japan
Grant Morrison's character designs for 2 Japanese superhero teams, "Big Science Action" and "Super Young Team," are up at Scans Daily. "Most Excellent Super What?" and "Morrison, what the hell?" ask stunned manga, anime and tokusatsu fans.
Sympathy for the Yellow Peril
In this crazy racist 1930s Mystery Men comic, Chen Chang "embarks on a trail gutted with blood and sudden, horrible death, as he carries on his vendetta against the white race," and dragon lady River Lily and I end up shouting, "Get him Black Lightning! Tramp down the white man!" (via Kaiju Shakedown).
Reaching the Youth -- With Comics!
I was looking through the picture books in the back of a bookstore where I sometimes work, when a woman came over with her son and slid out one I had snorted at earlier, Pete Sanders’ What Do You Know About Bullying? With Illustrated Storylines. And she said something I knew someone would, “Oh, it’s a comic! Isn’t that cool?
No, It's not cool.
Continue reading...
The Pitiful Death of Monsieur Mallah
There's a sickness in my stomach I've been carrying a while, an unpleasant acid feeling that bothers me when I've been reading or reading about comics lately. And I guess it's time for me to cough it up and see what the hell is burning a hole inside.
What's the Matter with Comics?
Comics at the Big Two are in rough shape. Greg Burgas and Chris Sims see similar problems (nostalgia, Kurt Busiek) creating more problems (blandness, resistance to change, retcons, killing of heroes of color to replace them with white heroes of the Silver Age...). We noted Chris' article before, but it's worth reading with Greg's.Happy Birthday, Pam Grier!
It's Pam Grier's birthday. Celebrate with this interview by NPR."Tresspassing on Sacred Ground"
As part of TCM's Race & Hollyood: Native American Images on Film" festival, Movie Morlocks has posted part 1 of an essay on Native Americans in horror movies from The Werewolf a 1913 Canadian silent to J.T. Petty's The Burrowers and Twilight: New Moon: "The inclusion of Native Americans into actual horror movies boils down to a scattering of reliable formulas: Whites Trespassing on Sacred Grounds, Vengeful Redskins, Ecology and Racism." (via GCDB)"A Cosmic-Scale Meta-Textual Ghetto"
Chris Sims writes a thought-provoking article about how DC's universe reboots are fueled by fan nostalgia that shoves characters of color aside in favor of white "legacy" characters and unintentionally builds "a cosmic-scale meta-textual ghetto." Read it.(And this little addition to it).Machete Trailer, Cinco de Mayo Edition
Happy Cinco de Mayo from Danny Trejo, Robert Rodriguez and Machete with this special edition trailer for Machete. Includes Cheech Marin, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Don Johnson and Steven Segal, plus special greetings for the state government of Arizona!Odienator Sizes Up Uncle Remus
Odienator answers two pressing questions in his piece about Song of the South: "1. Should Disney release this movie on DVD in America? Absolutely. 2. Is Song of the South as racist as its rep indicates? Well…keep reading. (You didn't think I'd just give you my goodies without dinner and foreplay, did you?)"The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages
Dart Adams Presents: Black Like Me: The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part One (1900-1968)and Part Two (1969-2008). (Click it! It's amazing).The Biography of Ebony White
"People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."--Malcolm
X / Malik El-Shabazz, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told To
Alex Haley)
"You Asked For It--Cried For It--Demanded It!"
"You asked for it--Cried for it--Demanded it!" Yes, dear reader, Sequential Crush, a blog dedicated to romance comics from the 1960s and 1970s. Check out "Black + White = Heartbreak," a story about interracial romance in the early 1970s and scans of the first three issues of Night Nurse. (via The Groovy Age of Horror)Talking More Twilight
Gabe Lezra hits a nerve when he writes about the white man's burden in Twilight and New Moon and wonders why there's no Team Bella and the comments at The Wesleyan Argus are all kerfuffled.Jenkins' List
Henry Jenkins writes up a handy list of some comics he's enjoyed recently, divvied into stories of everyday life, superheroes, science fiction/fantasy/horror, and some unclassifiable items.The Black Dragon's Revenge
Ron Van Clief. the Black Dragon, remembers Bruce Lee, Carter Wong, Jimi Hendrix, racism and underground fighting in the 1950s and working with Blaxploitation auteur, Berry Gordy:"What made The Last Dragon so special is that it was shot in New York City and it starred an African American. No drugs, no prostitution. Just a clean Disney-like story. I consider it a martial arts fantasy. They used my Chinese Goju virtues in the film. It was excellent that over 30 of my students worked on the film."
John Wayne Can't Save You
This month we're mixing it up at the Gutter with each editor writing about something outside their usual domain. This week Carol Borden writes about movies. She can normally be found here.
Blood Red Earth has been on FEARnet for weeks now. A horror movie set in the Old West with a Native American cast? All in Lakota? It's hard to imagine much more awesome than that. I'd been anticipating and dreading it. Its predecessor, The Burrowers, is harrowing and I wasn't in a hurry to be a little shaky, a little pale again. So I circled round and round. (Spoilers down below)
Continue reading...The Yellow Peril Seduces Unshaven, Middle Aged White Men
"She came from the Orient to seduce middle-aged white men who don't shave." Grady has a few things to say about the Zhang Ziyi and Dennis Quaid film, The Horsemen.
Response to Harassment in the Geek World
Comic Con Anti-Harassment Project and further discussion of the post we posted from Bully. Also, the Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project, here and here. (thanks, Elizabeth!)Yellow Peril
I've learned something reading Terry and the Pirates: There's no way around the yellow peril in the Golden Age. Good comics sometimes have racist renderings in them.
Grant Morrison Sighted Off The Coast of Japan
Grant Morrison's character designs for 2 Japanese superhero teams, "Big Science Action" and "Super Young Team," are up at Scans Daily. "Most Excellent Super What?" and "Morrison, what the hell?" ask stunned manga, anime and tokusatsu fans.Sympathy for the Yellow Peril
In this crazy racist 1930s Mystery Men comic, Chen Chang "embarks on a trail gutted with blood and sudden, horrible death, as he carries on his vendetta against the white race," and dragon lady River Lily and I end up shouting, "Get him Black Lightning! Tramp down the white man!" (via Kaiju Shakedown).Reaching the Youth -- With Comics!
I was looking through the picture books in the back of a bookstore where I sometimes work, when a woman came over with her son and slid out one I had snorted at earlier, Pete Sanders’ What Do You Know About Bullying? With Illustrated Storylines. And she said something I knew someone would, “Oh, it’s a comic! Isn’t that cool?
No, It's not cool.
